| Leif Eriksson | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:LeifErikssonBoston.jpg) The statue from the west in 2019 | |
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| Artist | Anne Whitney |
| Year | 1885 |
| Medium | Bronze sculpture |
| Subject | Leif Erikson |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 42°20′56.5″N 71°5′29″W / 42.349028°N 71.09139°W | |
Leif Eriksson is an outdoor statue by Anne Whitney at the west end of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.[1] Installed in 1887, it was the first public sculpture to honor the Norse explorer in the New World.[2]
- ^ Burr, Ty (June 4, 2017). "Do Boston's statues honor the truly honorable?". Boston Globe. p. A10.
Leif Eriksson (1887, Anne Whitney, Commonwealth Avenue Mall near Charlesgate)
- ^ Kjaergaard, Thorkild (2010). "An Unnoticed Example of how the Black Death Altered the Course of History: Why America Was Discovered from Spain and not from Scandinavia". Economic and Biological Interactions in Pre-industrial Europe, from the 13th to the 18th Century. By Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini. Settimana di studio, Simonetta Cavaciocchi. Florence: Firenze University Press. p. 269. ISBN 9788884535856.
The Mirage from the North: Leif Eriksson in America